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Loyalty - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Loyalty : (noun)
1: the quality of being loyal [ant: disloyalty]
2: feelings of allegiance
3: the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally)
to a course of action; "his long commitment to public
service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team" [syn: commitment,
allegiance, dedication]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Loyalty : \Loy"al*ty\, n. [Cf. F. loyaut['e]. See Loyal, and cf.
Legality.]
The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior,
or to duty, love, etc.
He had such loyalty to the king as the law required.
--Clarendon.
Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those
Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his
loyalty he saved. --Spenser.
Note: ``Loyalty . . . expresses, properly, that fidelity
which one owes according to law, and does not
necessarily include that attachment to the royal
person, which, happily, we in England have been able
further to throw into the word.'' --Trench.
Syn: Allegiance; fealty. See Allegiance.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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LOYALTY. That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing
government. See Penal Laws of China, 3.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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